Having found its audience in 2023, Quebec cinema will look to continue its momentum this year by offering a varied, promising 2024 vintage.
Here are 20 Quebec films that will hit our screens in the coming months.
The successor (February 2nd)
Filmed in Montreal and Paris, this new film from the French filmmaker just died of a heart attack. Yves Jacques, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé and Vincent Leclerc are also part of the cast of this disturbing thriller that flirts with horror cinema.
Lucy Grizzly Sophie (February 23)
Catherine-Anne Toupin, Guillaume Cyr and Lise Roy take on the roles they have already played on stage in this film adaptation of the play La meute directed by Anne Émond (Nelly, Jeune Juliette). Described as a psychological thriller, Lucy Grizzli Sophie tells the story of a persecuted and traumatized young woman who wants to escape her reality and finds herself hundreds of miles from home in a tourist bed and breakfast, where she is greeted by a man and his partner Aunt. Catherine-Anne Toupin wrote the screenplay for the film, based on her own play.
With the in-laws (February 23)
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Quebecers Evelyne Brochu and Antoine Olivier Pilon star alongside Americans Zach Braff and Vanessa Hudgens in this romantic comedy directed by James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright, two Montreal screenwriters who have worked in Hollywood for several years (they have in particular, wrote the script for the sequel). Independence Day). Filmed in English in Montreal, Chez les in-laws (French Girl in the original version) follows the romance between a Quebecer and an English teacher from Brooklyn.
Sweet Sixteen (FEBRUARY)
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This first feature film by actress and director Alexa-Jeanne Dubé is based on the play of the same name by the late Suzie Bastien and features eight 16-year-old girls who reveal themselves in monologues on the topics of self-image, eating disorders, friendship, first kisses, sex and rape.
Echo in the Delta (1um March)
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Filmmaker Patrick Boivin, a former member of the Phylactère Cola collective, made a name for himself by directing the brilliant short films Dragon Baby and Iron Baby, which went viral on YouTube a dozen years ago. He's back with Echo in Delta, a family drama with a sci-fi twist that follows the adventures of a ten-year-old boy who, with his group of friends, tries to prove that his seven-year-old brother has been abducted by aliens.
Leave the night (8th of March)
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The Quebec-Belgian director Delphine Girard won the Audience Award in the parallel “Giornate degli Autori” section of the Venice Film Festival with this first feature film, in which the Quebec actress Anne Dorval plays the leading role. “Leaving the Night” tells the story of a young woman who is attacked by a man during a party gone wrong.
You'll never know (March, 15)
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Six years after the release of his zombie comedy The Hungry, director Robin Aubert turns his camera on Quebec's health care system in this new film co-written with Julie Roy. Described as “a powerful and engaging work” but also “steeped in poetry”, You Will Never Know depicts an old man at the end of his life, locked in his CHSLD room and doing everything he can for the woman he loves to see you again one last time.
Irena's promise (March, 15)
Enttract Films
Less than a year after the release of her hit comedy Le temps d'un été, filmmaker Louise Archambault changes direction with this English-language historical drama that tells the true story of a Polish nurse who risked her life during World War II to save a dozen Jews during World War II. Quebec actress Sophie Nélisse stars in this adaptation of a play by Dan Gordon that opened on Broadway in 2009.
Hotel silence (March 29)
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This new film from director Léa Pool (La passion d'Augustine) is based on a novel by Icelandic author Audur Ava Olafsdottir and stars actor Sébastien Ricard in the role of a man in deep depression who decides to embark on a journey of no return country devastated by war. Irène Jacob, Louise Turcot and Paul Ahmarani also join the cast of this drama, which is described as an “ode to resilience and life”.
Hurricane FYT (April)
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This new film by Ara Ball, presented as a world premiere at the last Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), is an adaptation of his own short film from 2013. L'Ouragan FYT is a powerful film that takes us to an underprivileged neighborhood in Montreal kidnapped in 1991 when an 11-year-old boy decides to take control of his life and become “The Hurricane.”
The cook and the customs officer (May)
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Twelve years after the release of “Liverpool,” filmmaker Manon Briand (“The Turbulence of Fluids”) returns to the cinema with this dramatic comedy starring Julie Le Breton and French actor Édouard Baer. The latter plays a French chef in search of fame who, at the request of his mother, an adamant customs officer (Le Breton), comes to the aid of a young girl who has taken part in a culinary competition (Élodie Fontaine).
Adam is slowly changing (Spring)
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This first feature film by Joël Vaudreuil, which premiered last year as a world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival, shows a 15-year-old teenager who has the peculiarity of having a body that changes depending on the ridicule and negative comments that come with it he receives, changed by those around him. A multidisciplinary artist (he is also a member of the group Avec pas d'casque), Joël Vaudreuil has already made animated short films that stand out at festivals, including “Le cours weak de la rivière”.
Our sisters-in-law (July 11)
Director René Richard Cyr has assembled a five-star cast for his musical film inspired by Michel Tremblay's famous play. Geneviève Schmidt has been chosen to play the legendary role of Germaine Lauzon, particularly surrounded by Guylaine Tremblay, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Debbie Lynch-White and Ariane Moffatt, making her debut on the big screen. René Richard Cyr promises a “very cinematic” work that will differ greatly from the original piece, but also from the musical version presented on stage a few years ago.
Tell me why these things are so beautiful (July 19)
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Inspired by the epistolary relationship between Brother Marie-Victorin and his young assistant Marcelle Gauvreau, this film, presented as a world premiere at the last Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Cinema Festival, marks the return of director Lyne Charlebois to the cinema, 15 years after the release of Borderline. To write the script, the filmmaker read several times the letters that Marie-Victorin and Marcelle Gauvreau wrote to each other between 1933 and 1944, in which they dealt with human sexuality, desire and “biology without a veil”. It is Alexandre Goyette who gives his facial features to Brother Marie-Victorin, while Mylène Mackay slips into the skin of Marcelle Gauvreau.
1995 (July 31)
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Five years after the publication of 1991, next summer Ricardo Trogi will publish the fourth part of his autobiographical saga, which began 14 years ago with 1981. The 1995 comedy filmed in Quebec, Morocco and Nepal tells the adventures of the filmmaker (acted). again by actor Jean-Carl Boucher) when he made his debut as a director by participating in the 1994–1995 edition of La course destination monde. Sandrine Bisson, Claudio Colangelo, Shadi Janho, Rose Adam, Myriam Gaboury and Mickaël Gouin complete the film's cast.
The hidden woman (August 9)
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Eight years after the release of White Montreal, director Bachir Bensaddek is back with this second feature starring French actress Nailia Harzoune and Antoine Bertrand. The screenplay is by Maria Camila Arias. “The Hidden Woman” follows the journey of a woman who, after fleeing France, rebuilt her life in Quebec by lying about her past. But while pregnant with a second child, she has to admit her lies to her Quebec partner.
shepherd (Autumn)
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After signing two television series (Bête noire and Motel Paradis), filmmaker Sophie Deraspe (Antigone) returns to the cinema by bringing Quebec writer Mathyas Lefebure's book “Where Are You From, Shepherd?” to the big screen . Filmed in France last spring, Berger stars Félix-Antoine Duval as a young advertising executive who trades his life in Montreal for that of a shepherd in France.
Mshe Ankle boot (November 29)
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Antoine Bertrand and young actress Marguerite Laurence take the spotlight in this reinterpretation of the famous 1986 Tale for All Bach and Bottine. Directed by Yan Lanouette Turgeon from a screenplay by Dominic James (Coco Ferme), this new version of André Melançon's classic follows the adventures of an opera composer who lacks inspiration and is forced to take in his niece, a rebellious and eccentric orphan whose best friend is a skunk.
The little one and the old man (2024)
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This fourth feature film by director Patrice Sauvé (La vie, la vie, ça sent la coupe) is based on the novel of the same name by author Marie-Renée Lavoie and tells of the encounter between a child with an overflowing imagination and his new neighbor, a “rugged old one Man who hides a tender heart”. Gildor Roy and young actress Juliette Bharucha play the lead roles in this family film.
Disgusting and miserable (2024)
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In this fantastic comedy by director Jean-François Leblanc based on the graphic novel of the same name by Samuel Cantin, Fabien Cloutier slips into the skin of Lucien Vil, a misanthropic demon who became a used bookseller. Pier-Luc Funk plays Daniel, his young new assistant who turns his everyday life upside down. “Vile and Miserable” also stars Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Chantal Fontaine, Alexis Martin and Éric Robidoux.